Though many Black towns thrived, not all survived. Some were destroyed by racial violence, such as Greenwood, Oklahoma—better known as Black Wall Street—burned to the ground in the 1921 Tulsa ...

Greenwood Rising will display a new marker as part of the Oklahoma African-American Historic Trail, honoring Black Wall Street and Black frontier towns. Installation is set for spring.

named for the city's once-thriving Black district that was destroyed by a white mob. The sweeping plan is pushed by survivors of the massacre and their descendants, who last year were rejected at ...

who last year were rejected at the Oklahoma Supreme Court in their effort to force the city to make financial amends for one of the nation's worst single acts of violence against Black people.

What happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921? A mob of 10,000 whites descended on Greenwood, the richest black neighborhood in America, after a black teenager on his way to a blacks-only bathroom stepped ...

Did you know that before Oklahoma was established as a state, there was a push in Congress to make it an all-Black state?

The Odewale emphasized the importance of understanding the role of Black people in shaping the West, with particular attention to Black towns—especially those in Texas and Oklahoma, where many ...

With much of the community of 43,000 largely destroyed, many question whether ... and South Central Los Angeles was where Black families were forced to live,” Bryant said.